Iran condemns attacks in Lebanon

19/9/2024 5:48

        Iran condemned attacks in
        Lebanon on Tuesday and Wednesday that involved exploding
        communications devices, government spokesperson Fatemeh
        Mohajerani said in a post on the X social media platform on
        Wednesday, offering help to the wounded.
        
        Hand-held radios used by Hezbollah detonated on Wednesday
        across Lebanon killing at least three people and more than 100
        injured, further stoking tensions with Israel a day after
        similar explosions launched via the group's pagers which caused
        12 fatalities.
        
        "The terrorism of the Zionist regime causes aversion and
        disgust. Iran strongly condemns yesterday's criminal explosion
        of communication devices and today's criminal explosion of
        walkie-talkies, which resulted in the death and injury of
        hundreds of Lebanese civilians," Mohajerani said.
        
        Earlier in the day, according to state media, Iran's
        President Masoud Pezeshkian had said: "The incident in Lebanon
        shows once again that Western countries and the United States,
        despite claiming to seek a ceasefire, fully support the crimes,
        massacres and blind terrorism of the Zionist regime in
        practice."
        
        Tehran's ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amani, was injured
        in the exploision of his pager on Tuesday, and shared on
        Wednesday a message of solidarity to Lebanon on his X account.
        
        Iran's Minister of Health Mohammadreza Zafarqandi said a
        team of Iranian ophthalmologists and nurses were dispatched to
        Lebanon on Wednesday and that several injured Lebanese would be
        transferred to various hospitals in Tehran.